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Besides German, which languages offer good Christian readings?
Honestly, it depends what your field of interest is, and where scholarship in that field has flourished. German is almost indispensable for really serious Biblical work, I've found French useful in systematics (some stuff just doesn't get published in English, or the translations are very bad). If you're interested in older works, Latin and/or Greek might be better.
What particular field where you keen to pursue?
Thanks for that! I don't have a nameable goal, so I'll explain it instead.
I love to debunk popular errors, whether they're based in pop-spirituality, irrationality, ignorance, or simply a misreading of a text -- especially when that misreading is due to the way a text is translated.
And thus, knowing the way other people/cultures behave or interpret ideas--which we never even think to question--is high on my list.
https://www.amazon.com/Institutes-Christian-Religion-English-Version/dp/B002A7OAAMI'm pretty sure Calvin wrote in Latin, not French.
Russian and Arabic.